V. S. Naipaul Quotes

• One must always try to see the truth of a situation – it makes things universal.

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• My publisher, who was so good as a taster and editor, when she became a writer, lo and behold, it was all this feminine tosh.

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• My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world.

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• Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.

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• I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not.

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• I still think it’s really quite wonderful when I read a sentence of mine and it has that quality of lastingness.

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• I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing.

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• I’m very content.

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• I’ve never abandoned the novel.

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• If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.

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• If you decide to move to another country and to live within its laws you don’t express your disregard for the essence of the culture. It’s a form of aggression.

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• In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.

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• In England people are very proud of being very stupid.

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• It is important not to trust people too much.

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• It’s very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing… if you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you’ve got it half-made. I mean intellectually.

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• In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad; but I will evade that fate yet.

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• If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it’s O.K., but it’s of no account.

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• If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.

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• If a writer doesn’t generate hostility, he is dead.

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• I’ve been a free man.

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V. S. Naipaul (88)

Birth:	17th August, 1932
Nationality:	British, Trinidadian
Profession:	Essayist, Novelist

About

Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad is a Trinidadian-British writer of Indo-Trinidadian heritage of Kanyakubja Brahmin known for his novels focusing on the legacy of the British Empire's colonialism. He has also written works of non-fiction, such as travel writing and essays.

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